I want to call him Wil E. Coyote – what with tiptoeing around a couple thousand pounds of hungry bear to snatch dinner … There’s a slim chance you could train a black Labrador to do something similar. It would at least give the worthless flea-bit lump a chance to earn his keep in between [...]

Bait fishing wasn’t so bad, especially after we discovered which of our dumb-assed buddies was really interested in fishing, and which were there just to break rods. Lure fishing was better. We were suddenly agile – no longer rooted. Fishing became seduction versus sitting motionless hoping to be victimized. Fly fishing was better yet, we could [...]

While the rest of you are droning on about weights and tapers, modulus and action, I’ll be downstream …. … just me and my Blue Water Barbie. Via John Merwin and his Honest Angler blog, comes an eye opening video of a fellow catching a 100 pound blue shark on bright pink Barbie rod, complete [...]

Fishing statistics are so rare I can’t help but pounce on them when offered. Like most pitchmen I’ll spin the numbers to prove something horrific and discard the facts enroute to a shaky conclusion. This time it’s the Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation (RBFF) and the American Sportfishing Association (ASA) who’ve commissioned Southwick Associates to [...]

The latest viral video to sweep the Internet and it’s not angling’s finest hour… I’ve always prided myself on not caring what bit my fly, and with all the goat carcasses and derelict automobiles I thread through – I’m no longer squeamish about what I step in … A couple more of these and a [...]

While the UK is still mourning their lost brute Benson, Germany has countered with a new world record common carp. Landed last week, “Mary” flattened the scales at 86 pounds 6 ounces. It’s plain that the “Superhero” carp crowd are as tweaked about the gear fetish as us fly fishermen, only they’ve got about twice [...]

Angling art takes many forms and covers multiple mediums – yet only the Pristine seems worthy of immortalizing. Us fellows that trod mud amidst the savagery of the rural-urban interface rarely see much celebration of our craft. Recycled milk crates strike a special nerve – mostly because we’ve waded through their neatly ordered phalanxes below bridge [...]

It’s one of those moments where you look at your buddy and wonder what hideous crime was committed in a past life that you’re deserved this fate … Extreme videos Nice fish to the boat only …   … and when the day’s events are totaled, who’s telling the neighbor the fate of his borrowed [...]

With all the attention and outcry focused on the proposed Pebble Mine, what’s sliding under the radar is the Great Alaskan Coal Rush. With the far East clamoring for coal to fuel the Chinese infrastructure build out, and with Alaska containing one half of the coal reserves of the United States, and the shortest distance to [...]

I was doing the math on the current set of hip boots and rather than pooch out the lower lip claiming I’d been used cruelly, I realized that my seasons are a bit different than most… The left boot was taking on water from both heels and soles, I’d managed to wear through both, and [...]